COMPUTER PROGRAMMING AS A FEMALE PROFESSION – herstory of cyber girls
Anna
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I have this memory from my childhood. I was little, maybe six or seven years old. In the kitchen of my family home there was a drawer in which my mom used to keep rectangular cardboard sheets for taking notes and making shopping lists. One of the corners of each sheet was cut, and on the back there were rows of numbers printed in bright grey ink. I remember playing with these sheets, as they were perfect for my pretend office or shop – they would help me make sense of what I, as a child, thought people did at work. I would write some numbers on these sheets and use my own coding system, as I had no idea what they were actually used for.
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